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SLingPro

The project aims in the long-term to investigate speaker’s language use based on social variables such as age, gender or social background/class over time.

Great Visit @ .txtLAB McGill

This week I’ve been visiting the .txtLab, a laboratory for cultural analytics, @McGill led by Prof. Andrew Piper. It was a great visit, with wounderful discussions and interesting people. He and his group explore the use of computational and quantitative approaches towards understanding literature and culture in both the past and presen.

Workshop: Making most effective use of meta-data from historical data

Check out our workshop from Sept. 7th to 8th 2017 at Saarland University

In this workshop, we aim to bring together specialists from the field of historical corpora/archive building as well as those researchers involved in conducting empirical research on historical data that are also interested in accounting for different variables, notably social variables. Each corpus/archive has its peculiarities. Which are these and how can we make best use of them? Collections and corpora might be based on the same data sets, but interests in the kinds of meta-data valuable for analysis vary.